Google Chrome: Thumbs Up or Down?

I’m using it now. I don’t like the color scheme, it’s to ‘XP-ish’ for me. I hope there’s a way to change the color scheme.

But I like that it handles tabs as separate processes so when one tab crashes, the entire browser won’t crash.

About the security flaw, I think Google will be able to address it soon.

I’m using chrome now. Too bad it can’t replicate the zoom feature of Firefox 3.

Killer apps rules! Chrome is Google’s OS as internet as their platform. Chrome is a Cloud Operating Systems for Google Apps. Stocks are sky rocketing now and Microsoft are already loosing big time!

aero + chrome = eye candy

Here are more details:

Layout Engine: WebKit – [1] FLOSS developed by Apple (which is used by Safari and other browsers); [2] a fork of KDE’s KHTML (which is used by Konqueror); [3] Chrome v0.2 is using an old version of WebKit (Safari 3.1.0 equivalent; latest WebKit is used by Safari 3.1.2)
Rich Internet Application (RIA): Gears
JavaScript Engine: Google V8
Graphics Library: Skia Graphic Library (SGL)
Project Behind Chrome: Chromium

It is interesting to note the following:
1) Google used FLOSS projects to build Chrome
2) Chrome was developed by 2 ex-Mozilla Firefox developers
3) It is importing from Firefox only upon installation
4) Will surely be integrated with Android
5) This is beta (LOL) so don’t expect ‘perfectness’

Personally, IMO, Chrome > Safari > Firefox > Opera > IE8

This was posted using Chrome v0.2 btw :p

Check this out:

First, define “Services”:

1.1 Your use of Google’s products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Google under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Google. “Google” means Google Inc., whose principal place of business is at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. This document explains how the agreement is made up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.

Second, the issue:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

1) The word “through” was used.
2) Google Chrome is a “product” of Google and thus is included in “Services”

In other words,
“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

means Google CAN do all of those to YOUR CONTENT which you submit, post or display on or THROUGH, the Services (example: Google Chrome).

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PS, I hope I am wrong ;)

Also found via Wikipedia, I only emphasized the keyword which wasn’t emphasized by the original article.

JC John, that’s answered here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_google_have_rights_to_all.php

Definitely thumbs up! Faster and leaner, even the UI is sleek in my opinion. I do miss some of the extensions in Firefox, but the speed at which Chrome handles web apps is just great. It also breezes around javascript heavy sites, which would be any site heavily relying in AJAX. Right now, I still have Firefox as my default browser, but I’ve been using Chrome ( including writing this comment ) exclusively for 2 days now. About running it in Linux, I’ll try it on WINE when I have a chance, but I think this should run pretty easy.

With regards to the webkit security flaw – I’m not so much concerned as the attack needs social engineering into making you think that the download is part of a system message ( or part of the browser ), — which makes it easier to avoid and detect. I personally direct all my downloads to a Temp folder ( for all browsers, and the first thing I did to Chrome was to set its download path ) where I can check for files I want and delete those that I do not need ( or have used but do not serve me any purpose anymore ). Also, make it a practice to not open files using the browser download box, just go to your downloads folder to do that. I do hope Google patches this flaw soon, but this should not hinder people from trying it out.

i was thinking about downloading it. but i’ve already gotten so used to my firefox add ons, that i don’t really think i could use some other browser as my primary.

Simple and fast. I love it!

I tried using it but most likely i’m sticking with Mozilla :D I dunno.. for some reason there’s something weird about Chrome but I can’t figure out exactly what!

thumbs up.. fast and simple. i love the incognito feature.

i guess goog is really looking forward to the days where there’s no need to have a fat apps client and everything works with the browser.. called chrome

Best part is that each tab is a single unit, amazing.

Amazing, amazing, amazing.

I’m using it right now under Windows 2000. (got it running there via the chrome2k “patch” from the web). What I like about it is that despite eating up tons of memory, it feels “smooth”. Pages load quickly (as I see it), the way it animates the tabs when you drag it is smooth. The status bar is unobtrusive, same with the download bar.

Hope that “smooth” feeling gets transferred to other browsers in the future.

chrome’s fast w/ some eye candy but i still prefer the safari & firefox over it..

might change my mind though coz i know it’s still in the beta stage.

I still prefer Safari…

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